Forever Ambergris story
Washed-up combat photographer Dalton Scott is told by his boss that he is losing his edge. After visiting his protégé, up-and-coming photographer Isaac "Ike" Forte for dinner, Dalton grows enamored with Ike's beautiful wife, Bobbi. When Dalton and Ike are sent to Central America alongside a group of mercenaries for an assignment, the former cooks up a deadly scheme to send the latter into a village ravaged by biological weapons, where Ike eventually ends up contracting a virulent disease that causes him to rapidly decay, in an attempt to steal Bobbi from him. Also starring Titus Welliver. Directed by: Gary Fleder. Story by: Scott Rosenberg.
15 total · 2 choice · 8 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with being washed up | choice | Dalton was a past-his-prime war photographer who had designs on using his protégé to rise back to prominence. |
| the desire for fame | choice | Dalton was a has-been and his desire for another turn in the limelight was such that he betrayed a loyal friend and stole his work, in order to get there. |
| betrayal | major | Dalton betrayed his friend and protégé, Ike, and stole Ike's photos. |
| biological weapons | major | Ike went to photograph a village in an unspecified war-torn Central American country that had been ravaged by some biological weapon. It didn't go well. as the weapon left behind a biological agent that made people melt and fall to pieces. |
| friendship | major | Dalton and Ike were fast friends, or so it seemed up to the point where Dalton betrayed Ike. |
| husband and wife | major | Ike and Bobbi, a young married couple, were madly in love. |
| photography | major | Dalton and Ike were professional war photographers. |
| romantic love | major | Ike and Bobbi were madly in love. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Bobbie was so enraged by how Dalton had treated Ike that she deliberately infected herself with a deadly, gruesome, disease just so that she could pass it to Dalton and have a posthumous revenge. |
| the horrors of war | major | Dalton an Ike made ends meat by photographing warfare, and the scenes of inhumanity that go along with it. |